Apps for you 2007

Office worker

Business Card Designer Pro 4.7 demo

If you want to design head-turning business cards without a fuss this app is for you. Business Card Designer Pro from Belltech is a feature-rich business card program, designed to help you create professional-looking cards in a matter of minutes. Once your done, simply hit ‘Print’ and you’re good to go!

Type: Shareware ($29.95)
System: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Size: 8.99Mbytes
Web: www.belltechsystems.com

Undelete Plus 2.9

Looking for a quick and effective way to retrieve accidentally deleted files at work? Well, we have the perfect solution for you. Undelete Plus can retrieve files removed from your Recycle Bin, in a DOS windows and even from a network drive. The best part about the app is that it works with a variety of systems, ranging from Windows 95 all the way to Microsoft’s latest OS, Windows Vista. The app also supports all major Windows file formats, including FAT32 and NTFS. It can also rescue documents or images from SD cards and USB drivers. Very useful indeed.

Type: Freeware
System: Windows 95/98/2000/XP/ME
Size: 1.06Mbytes
Web: www.undelete-plus.com

CutePDF Writer 2.7

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is the de-facto standard for the distribution and exchange of electronic documents and forms around the world.

CutePDF Writer (formerly dubbed CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software and is designed to enable virtually any Windows application (that boast print functionality) to create professional quality PDF documents.

Type: Freeware
System: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Size: 1.55Mbytes
Web: www.cutepdf.com

OpenOffice.org 2.2.1

OpenOffice.org is essentially a multi-platform office productivity suite, which includes desktop apps such as a word processor, a spreadsheet program, a presentation manager, and a drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to those of other office suites such as Corel. OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including Microsoft Office and Corel’s Word Perfect.

Type: Freeware
System: 200/XP/Vista
Size: n/a
Web: www.openoffice.org

QuickInvoice 2.63 demo

QuickInvoice allows you to create and print smart-looking invoices and quotes in just a few minutes. It also improves your productivity by helping you to monitor due payment dates and due amounts easily.Best of all, you can speed up the creation of your invoices by making a list of frequently used customers as well as of inventory items.

Type: Shareware ($50.00)
System: Windows 98/2000/XP
Size: n/a
Web: www.officepopup.com

CalendarPro 2.41 demo

Are you on the hunt for a quick, simple yet powerful calendar app? CalendarPro is an easy-to-use calendar designed for Microsoft Windows that allows you to quickly look up dates, important appointments and set reminders for yourself. The app is a fast with little overhead, and stays quietly out of your way until you need it.

Type: Shareware ($19.95)
System: Windows 98/2000/XP
Size: 2.14Mbytes
Web: www.sharewaresolutions.com
Road warrior

PPT2Flash Standard demo

Wondershare PPT2Flash is essentially a PowerPoint to Flash conversion tool. Once you install the app, its functions are embedded within Microsoft PowerPoint’s main toolbar, thus making it is very easy-to-use. It supports more than 170 animations and transitions and allows users to import background audio or record voice narration. You can also set a password to protect your presentation.

Type: Shareware ($59.95)
System: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Size: n/a
Web: www.sameshow.com

Handy Backup 5.5

Handy Backup is an easy-to-use app designed for automatic backup and restoration of your important data to a CD, DVD or USB device. The program also works with LANs, FTP/SFTP servers and online storage services. The best part about this app is once you make a back up copy you can encrypt it and compress it with the push of a button.

Type: Shareware ($39.00)
System: Windows 2000/XP
Size: 6.8Mbytes
Web: www.handybackup.com

PortableApps Suite Standard 1.0

PortableApps.com Suite is collection of very useful portable apps. It includes a web browser, e-mail client, office suite, calendar and instant messaging client, which are all preconfigured to work from your USB drive. Just drop it on your portable device and you’re ready to go. This edition includes mini versions of Mozilla Firefox, OpenOffice, the anti- virus app, ClamWin and much more.

Type: Freeware
System: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Size: 89.5Mbytes
Web: www.portableapps.com

AES Password Manager 2.4.7 demo

Wish you didn’t have to remember tons of online passwords? AES Password Manager protects sensitive information such as website passwords, credit card numbers, PIN codes by storing the items in a encrypted, password-protected database. When accessing password-protected websites and e-mail accounts, the program automatically selects and enters the correct password from the database. This greatly simplifies your web surfing experience without compromising your data security.

Type: Shareware ($29.00)
System: Windows 2000/XP
Size: 3.1Mbyte
Web: n/a

PC Repair System 1.0

PC Repair System includes more than thirty tools dedicated to improving your PC’s performance. The great part about this toolkit is that it is designed to be portable, that is, you can carry it around conveniently stored in your USB key, as long as it is larger than 32 Mbytes. PC Repair System includes a host of popular apps including CCleaner, Double Killer, TweakUI and File Assassin.

Type: Freeware
System: Windows 98/2000/XP
Size: 14.2Mbytes
Web: www.dailycupoftech.com

FreeCommander 2007

FreeCommander is a Windows Explorer replacement that will enable you to work with multiple folders more quickly. For instance, the app has the facility to open a dual-panel window. This means you can have two folders (or hard drive contents) open within both windows, and then simply drag files between the two.

With built-in support for different archive formats and the ability to synchronise between different folders, you can quickly compare the contents of two folders and then choose to update the destination window with only the updated or content.

This is an excellent option when you want to remotely access and update your homepage. Open the local folder contents within one window and the remote contents in the other window pane, compare the contents then synchronise.

Type: Freeware
System: Windows 98/2000/XP
Size: 2.0Mbytes
Web: www.freecommander.com
Student

DownUtube

If you have a broadband internet connection then online videos and movie trailers can easily be streamed to your PC in real-time. However you might find it frustrating that you can’t download these trailers and videos to your PC to watch at your convenience. You’ll love DownUTube then, because this tool has been designed to do just that, enabling you to grab embedded and streaming video content from sites such as Google Videos, YouTube and even official movie trailer pages online. Just store the videos in cache and view them offline. Genius.

Type: Freeware
System: Windows 2000/XP
Size: 4.2Mbytes
Web: www.sourceforge.net/projects/downutube

ExamDiff Pro 3.5 demo

When you need to compare files or folders, no tool is more intuitive and easy-to-use than ExamDiff Pro. Whether you want to synchronise two directories, compare two versions of your documents, or figure out which bytes got changed in a Windows DLL, ExamDiff Pro will get the job done. An app every student should use.

Type: Shareware ($35.00)
System: Windows 2000/XP
Size: 2.91Mbytes
Web: www.prestosoft.com

Classroom Spy Professional 2.4 demo

It’s hard to teach a group of people how to use a PC, or even how to use a specific program on a PC or the internet. For someone who’s doing something right, there are probably two others doing it wrong, playing games or checking e-mail. Classroom Spy lets you see what everyone’s doing without leaving your desk. You can monitor the activity of all the PCs remotely. Plus, you can share your screen with your students’ PCs, making presentations much easier.

Type: Shareware ($49.95)
System: Windows 98/2000/XP
Size: 5.39Mbytes
Web: www.classroomspy.com

Blogger for Word

This app is a Microsoft Word plug-in that lets you publish to the web from Microsoft Word. Not only does it export your text and clean up the HTML code, it actually round-trips, letting you publish to the web, edit and publish again. You can even edit posts you wrote on the web in Word and save them back or save them as a Word document. Besides offline blog writing, this app is great for collaborating on documents as well. Note: before you can use the app you will need to first sign-up for a Blogger account.

Type: Freeware
System: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Size: 1.95Mbytes
Web: buzz.blogger.com/bloggerforword

Internet Radio Recorder demo

As its name suggests, IRR is designed to help you capture your favorite tunes or radio programs from the web. It takes advantage of the abundant selection of internet radio stations which deliver an incredible variety of music and programs all year through.

Type: Shareware ($39.99)
System: Windows 2000/XP
Size: 14.96Mbytes
Web: www.fog-ware.com

Google Talk

This app is essentially a stand-alone instant messaging client from well-known search engine firm Google. Like MSN Messenger, it lets you chat, e-mail or place PC to PC calls to your far-flung friends and family. It’s very simple-to-use and all you need in order to use the app is a Gmail account.

Type: Freeware
System: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Size: 1.53Mbytes
Web: www.google.com/talk
Home manager

Comodo Firewall Pro 2.4

Recently upgraded and improved but still 100% free to consumers, Comodo Firewall Pro is a smart software firewall that – when combined with up-to-date anti-virus software of course – will ensure that no strangers are able to peer across the internet and examine the personal data stored on your PC. All in all, this great freebie app is about as easy-to-use as it gets and highly effective to boot.

Type: Freeware
System: Windows 2000/XP
Size: 5.57Mbytes
Web: www.personalfirewall.comodo.com

CDBurnerXP Pro 3.0

CDBurnerXP Pro is an easy to use CD burning software, which is able to write CD/DVD-R and CD/DVD-RW discs. The program can also write disks directly from an ISO image file. In addition to CD burning, you can rip audio CDs or DVDs, normalise WAV files, encode MP3 files and erase disks.

Type: Freeware
System: Windows 98/2000/XP
Size: 10.76Mbytes
Web: www.cdburnerxp.se/

Advanced WindowsCare Personal 2.5

Wouldn’t it be great if slow downs, freezes, crashes and security threats were a thing of the past?

Well, they can be. Advanced WindowsCare Personal is an all-in-one PC-care utility that takes a one-click approach to help protect, repair and optimise your computer.

Scanning and finding what other utilities miss, it can keep your PC error-free and running smoother than ever.

Type: Freeware
System: Windows 2000/XP
Size: 4.53Mbytes
Web: www.iobit.com

Driver Detective 6 demo

As we all know, many hardware problems can be corrected by merely updating to the latest version of a driver. The problem is finding which hardware drivers are out of date. Driver Detective helps you with this seemingly impossible task by scanning your hard drive and displaying a list of all of the drivers installed on your system. When you highlight an individual driver, you get information such as its version number and the vendor’s name. From there, you have to do some sleuthing on your own to find the site where you can download the very latest driver.

Type: Shareware ($30.00)
System: Windows 2000/XP
Size: 4.9Mbytes
Web: www.drivershq.com

PerpetualBudget 4.2 demo

PerpetualBudget is a Windows app designed to manage Excel spreadsheet budgets. It tracks all budgets, creates a user file network and manages the budget cycle. Any installation can create a network database that supports multi-admin users for team management of budgets. With it, you can eliminate shared workbooks and manual pasting of worksheet data.

The app can integrate with your existing budgeting software (or forecasting software) and saves time by automating the update process.

Type: Shareware ($99.00)
System: Windows 2000/XP
Size: 9.14Mbytes
Web: www.brothersoft.com

Appointment Scheduler

AS 2.4 is an easy-to-use appointment scheduling software that will replace paper-based calendar. Users can create and share calendars and appointments with others within the organisation.

Type: Shareware
System: Windows 2000/XP
Size: 9Mbytes
Web: www.download.com
Power geek

MP3 Remix 3.2 Player demo

This app is fun little program for adding special effects to your favourite tunes. The program’s interface is graphically rich, displaying two turntables with four effects pads on each. Once you load and begin playing an MP3, the app will let you add or remove up to eight audio effects simultaneously. Loops fall into such categories as animal sounds, turntable scratches and bass lines. Each category also contains a huge library of individual effects such as vocoders and even tablas. A great mixing starter.

Type: Shareware
System: Windows 2000/XP
Size: 2.2Mbytes
Web: www.fxsound.com

AlienGUIse Theme Manager

Offered with all new Alienware systems and available for free on the firm’s website, AlienGUIse Theme Manager dramatically transforms the appearance of your Microsoft Windows operating system into a sleek and sexy display through offering exclusive Alienware-centered skins such as Invader, Darkstar, AlienMorph and ALXMorph. These alter the appearance of your icons, wallpaper and even Windows Media Player’s skin. Overall, a great way to dress up your desktop.

Type: Freeware
System: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Size: 38Mbytes
Web: www.alienware.com

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007

Virtual PC 2007 is a software virtualization solution that allows you to run multiple PC-based operating systems simultaneously on one workstation, providing a safety net to maintain compatibility with legacy applications while you migrate to a new operating system. It also saves reconfiguration time, so your support, development, and training staff can work more efficiently.

Type: Freeware
System: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Size: 30.4 – 60.9Mbytes (depending on download components)
Web: www.microsoft.com

muvee Auto Producer 6 demo

If you want to create movies and slideshows that will impress your friends and family then Auto Producer 6 from muvee is just what you need. The best part is you don’t have to be a computer whiz because the app automatically edits your videos and syncs stylish visual effects to the best of your favourite tunes.

Type: Shareware ($130.00)
System: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Size: 185Mbytes
Web: www.muvee.com

Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor

The Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor will help you to determine if your Windows XP-based PC can run Windows Vista.

This small software tool will scan your computer and create an easy-to-understand report of all known system, device, and program compatibility issues, and recommend ways to resolve them.

Moreover, Upgrade Advisor can also help you to choose the edition of Windows Vista that best fits the way you will use your computer. Can your rig handle the fancy pants Aero interface for instance, and will you need BitLocker functionality?

Type: Freeware
System: Windows XP
Size: 6.6Mbytes
Web: www.microsoft.com